THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No.25
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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Friday, September 28, 1979
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Dead beat
A bass drummer for the Lawrence High School Marching Band takes a breath during practice yesterday morning. The band's first show of the year was on Wednesday.
participating in the 32nd annual KU Band Day Saturday,
Activities include a 9 a.m. parade and a performance at half-time.
KU enrolls 26,227,up 3%
By JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Reporter
Enrollment at the University of Kansas topped 38,000 this fall, an increase of 3 percent from last fall, according to figures released by the office of admissions and records.
Official enrollment for KU was 26,227 with 24,123 counted for the University of Kansas and 2,095 counted for the Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., and the University Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas.
The Lawrence campus figure represents a 2.38 percent increase from last fall's total of 23,544. Enrollment in the College of Health Sciences is up 3.7 percent from 1,908 a year ago.
The Lawrence campus total includes enrollment at KU's Regents Center in Overland Park, Kan, and the Capitol
Complex Center in Topela, according to Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor.
SHANKEL SAID about 1,800 students were enrolled in Overland Park and 100 were enrolled in Topeka.
A breakdown of enrollment at the Wichita and Kansas City branches of the College of Health Sciences was not available yesterday.
Shankel said, "The state of the economy could be a major factor in the enrollment increase, but we still are analyzing the figures ourselves.
"In times of a tight economy, more people are likely to attend college."
Shankel also said increases in tuition at private schools and out-of-state universities could be prompting more students to stay in Kansas.
Although KU's fee for out-of-state students has risen along with tuition in all other American colleges, Shankel said, the
not changed in recent years.
Out-of-state students on the Lawrence
campus this fall paid $85.10 in tuition fees,
while Kansas residents paid $35.10.
percentage of out-of-state students at-
tending EU has not changed in recent years.
"TO LIE TO think our increased enrollment is due to confidence in the programs we offer." Shankel said. "That's the reason I prefer."
Enrollment at Emporia, State University also increased this fall. Enrollment at Emporia State was 9,375, an increase of 9 percent from last fall 5,850.
The four other Regents schools still are compiling their fall enrollment figures. All but Fort Hays State University have said they expect enrollment increases this fall.
Enrolment totals last year at the other Regents schools were: Kansas State University, 15,877; Pittsburgh State University, 15,877; Pittsburgh State University, 15,877; and Imperial State University, 3,640.
By DAVID LEWIS Staff Reporter
SenEx talks on exigency
The University Senate executive committee will discuss today the Board of Regents controversial definition of financial exigency, which has spurned criticism from some KU faculty members, who believe the definition is too unnecessary release of tapered faculty.
The Regents approved Sept. 21, a statewide definition of financial exigency, but the University of Kansas had already issued a declaration and policy of financial exigency in 1976.
Financial exigency may be declared when budget difficulties arise and the elimination of tenured positions is necessary.
KU's policy states that the release of tenured professors is to be used "only as a last resort after all possible alternatives . . .
have been in good faith examined, and utilized or rejected."
The Regents policy says, "It shall be the responsibility of the chief executive officer of each Regents institution, in consultation with appropriate campus groups, to develop a plan for reductions in personnel as well as conditions of financial exigency.
Joel Gold, chairman of the ad hoc committee on financial exigency, said yesterday that the Regents definition of financial exigency should be the faculty because it was too vague.
"THE REGENTS definition has to be more specific. Unless the statewide definition comes closer to being more precise, you should not policy our woes if we are good." he said.
According to T.P. Srinivasan, KU chapter
president of the Association of American University Professors, the Regents policy is not as clearly defined as the KPI policy, and its financial exigency as any financial difficulty.
"In accordance with its long-standing tradition, the Regents have delegated to the individual institutions broad discretion for determining financial exigency."
IN A LETTER to SenEx, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said, "The financial exigency statement earlier developed for the Lawrence campus by our faculty and administration is in no way abrogated or disallowed by the Regents policy statement.
Gold said the University would have problems if the other Receipts institutions
Student Senate budget corrected
See EXIGENCY page 11
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate budget for fiscal year 1980 has been rewritten because of accounting errors in the original budget. The student treasurer, Van Parys, Student Senate treasure.
Van Parsy said yesterday that the original budget figures submitted by former Student Treasurer, Keith Maib, had been about "$50 percent correct."
Problems in the original budget involved incorrect allocations to student organizations and mathematical errors within block allocations.
The mistakes were discovered this summer after the budget was submitted to the office of student affairs, Van Parsa said.
"THE TOTAL figures were all right," she said. "The errors made in the breakdown of individual accounts."
Margaret Berlin, student body president, said the errors were made when the budget was originally compiled, but they were corrected as part of the University operating budget.
Craig, Templeton, administrative
Vam Pays and Van Vams were being on work
on the budget and reviewing accounts since Van
Pays took office July 1. Mait resigned Brue
"We were mostly straightening out the accounts and tying up loose ends," Van Parsa said.
Maib could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The Student Senate treasurer's office manages the accounts of about 80 student expenditures. Expenditures by organization funded must be approved by the Senate treasurer, according to Van Parys. This procedure allows the treasurer to oversee accounts
of the budget, money allocated to some organizations did not match appropriations made last spring
Van Parys explained that in Maib's draft
TEMPLETON SAID, "It was a matter of going back through the budget piece by piece and checking the allocations."
However, Van Parys said, every group that received funds at budget hearings should have its correct allocation by now.
The Senate allocates about $428,000 to student organizations. The money is derived from the $11.10 activity fee.
Joan Sherwood, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said the accounting errors were not an unusual or significant problem.
"Some of their allocations were not on line with legislation," she said, "but the corrections were made.
"Student Senate gave us the most accurate budget they could at the time."
The new budget is ready except for printing, according to Van Parvs.
Consumer affairs office requests postal investigation of mail order
Staff Reporter
By DOUG WAHL
Consumer Affairs employees say un-
believed that the advertiser left Lawrence.
The Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association posted an email lawrence.pattock@lawrence.com post office to begin an investigative possible case of mail fraud, according to Chaude Chapman, a consumer affairs representative.
The alleged improprieties involve advertisements for a furniture sander called Koni Abrasive. Three Lawrence residents were killed in an accident for the sander but never received the product.
Several Lawrence clients filed complaints with Consumer Affairs against Koni Abrasive after waiting a couple of months for the sanders.
MARILYN TRYON, 1109 W. 22nd St.
Terrace, she said she had sent a check for $17.0
for several sanders, payable to Koni
Landis. The check was received the check was
canceled a few weeks later.
Martha Langley, financial administrator for the Hillton Child Development Center.
she said she had an ad in the Aug. 3, Lawrence Journal-World and had sent a check for $5.90 to Koni Abrasive, at the same box number.
She said she received her canceled check a few weeks later but did not receive the sander.
A Journal-World advertising employee said the display ad had been paid for in advance.
JACK HOLMSTEAD, general manager for the Kansas City Star, said the
See FRAUD back
Ballet teacher blends strength and grace
By DOUG WAHL
Staff Reporter
A tiny, energetic woman with blonde hair tightly pulled and braided leans against a wall. Stray wipos of hair frame her face, and she surveys the roomful of dancers.
She stands on one foot and then the other, watching her charges with the intensity of an eagle.
She is watching a futuristic, almost hypnotic sea of movement. Men and women dressed in black tights are spanning and leaping and twirting in what looks like a free-for-all of fenced motion.
"People, let's take it a couple of times to refresh our memory," the woman calls.
SHE WALKS TO THE record player with quick, skipping steps and carefully sets the needle on a record. The lifting strings of a Vivaldi violin concerto begin to fill the room. The dancer poses themselves, their movements reproduced by full length mirrors.
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight," she calls.
The dancers begin their steps.
"Stretch your legs — keep your chest up, Tom," she says, as the tempo of the violins increases.
"Five, six, seven, eight," her tone becomes urgent.
The dancers' bodies bend and wave to the music.
In a spontaneous move she jumps to the center of the floor. With one hand perched on her hip she snaps her fingers and steps gracefully among the dancers.
THE MUSIC SEEMS to control the dancers. She claps her hands in rhythm.
"More of a stretch, more of a stretch," she cries.
"And turn. And turn," she calls in time to the music.
The violins build to a crescendo And three, and four.
The music becomes frantic as the violins stretch toward a climax; the dancers' chests heave for air.
The room is a blur of movement as the violins peak.
Sweat slides from the woman's cheek as the music stops.
She walks with short, contemplative steps to the record player, her thumb against her teeth and her brow furrowed.
"THIS IS VERY frustrating without the right music," she says.
The woman who has been so enthusiastically directing the dance is Kristina Kralan, a special practice session for her newly formed ballet troupe, the Kaw Valley Dance
She wisks a strand of wet blonde hair
from her forehead and turns to speak to a man and woman.
"I would like her on the floor on the count of six," she says. "That means we lose four counts on the turn."
The man nods his head and grasps the woman around the waist and thigh. She spins across his leg and onto the floor.
"Much better," Manley says and breaks into a pleased grin.
Manley has been dancing for 25 of her 30 years. She teaches ballet six days a week in a dance studio above a hotdog shop off
Kristin Manley, director of the Kaw Valley Dance Theatre, studies a dance routine in her studio at 205% W. Eighth St.
See BALLET page six
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